Lance Armstrong Investigation: Grand Jury is Still Working

The LA Times is reporting that two anonymous sources have told them that "Yaroslav Popovych, a teammate of Lance Armstrong on the Discovery Channel, Astana and RadioShack squads, will appear Wednesday before a grand jury in Los Angeles." This is the first news I've heard about the investigation for some time.

Meanwhile, the NY Times is reporting that Floyd Landis and his former coach, Arnie Baker, are being tried in France for computer hacking. According to the article:

A French arrest warrant was issued in January for Landis and Baker, who fought a legal battle to prove Landis did not dope at the Tour. Officials from the French lab that discovered synthetic testosterone in Landis’s urine sample claimed that hackers had obtained confidential information about Landis’s test results from their computers. Landis and Baker have denied involvement.

 I first met Arnie Baker when I raced against him at the 2005 High Uintas Classic. My teammate, Dale Maughan, and I dropped Arnie and his teammate, along with the rest of the peloton, as we climbed up the Mirror Lake Highway. Arnie and teammate chased and finished 3rd and 4th about five minutes back after the first stage of this three stage race. Dale easily won the other two stages and the stage race on Sunday.

Now that we know Arnie was Floyd's coach and doctor, it makes me wonder what a urine test would have revealed in 2005. How long will it be before we have random drug tests at amateur races? Given the news on Joe Papp, I'd like to see drug tests at every race next year...